Plaindealer file photo Ride the Rockies competitors roll through Ouray on their way to Ridgway during the 2017 tour. The annual event, which runs this year from June 14-19, will stop in Ridgway again this year as part of a tour through southwestern Colorado.
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Ridgway again in 2020, and organizers have promised the cycling event will go better than it did when the community last hosted it.
Ride the Rockies Director Deirdre
Moynihan came to the town council meeting the night of Jan. 8 and started by apologizing for the way Ride the Rockies went in 2017.
“You guys did a tremendous job and did not reap the benefits,” Moynihan said, noting she was not the race director at the time.
In 2017, the Ouray Tourism Office (then ...